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Graphic 47: Current Issue
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Publisher Propaganda
Idea code 21325
€ 32.00
‘Graphic’ invited ten teams that approach topical social issues from various angles, providing them with sixteen pages to convey their areas of research. For some, this is a report, chronology, or journal, while others choose talks, interviews, or colouring books to reinforce their arguments. The teams all share the same kind of critical mind in their search for appropriate means of expression. Three short essays which expand upon the topics raised are also included. Emerging from different backgrounds and thematic concerns, they nevertheless give rise to constructive discussion. Rather than appearing as a single volume, the contributions are bound separately like brochures or flyers.
200 , ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, box, Korean/English
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Typographic Architectures - Wim Crouwel, Catherine De Smet, Emmanuel Berard
Isbn 9782490077472
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 21239
€ 21.50
This publication is an updated reissue of the book designed by Experimental Jet Set and published on the occasion of ‘Wim Crouwel: Architectures Typographiques, 1956-1976’, an exhibition that took place in the beginning of 2007 at Galerie Anatome in Paris. Featuring texts that illuminate the oeuvre of Wim Crouwel, this abundantly-illustrated book analyzes his wide range of production in diverse fields, such as visual identities, publications, posters, exhibitions, and his catalogue work for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. For decades, Crouwel's influence has extended beyond the Netherlands, with his approach to graphic design that combines modernist heritage with pop fantasy.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, French/English
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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020
Isbn 9783909928675
Publisher Bundesamt Fur Kultur Bern
Idea code 21379
€ 29.30
An initiative of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition aims to honour outstanding achievements in book design and to promote and showcase high-quality book production. The award-winning publications attract the attention of a wide audience through numerous book fairs and an exhibition tour in Switzerland and abroad. A total of nineteen winning volumes appear in the 2020 edition, selected from among the 370 submissions. Due to health restrictions imposed by the pandemic, an ad hoc jury was convened for this edition, consisting of Gilles Gavillet, Nicolas Eigenheer, Simone Farner, Sereina Rothenberger, and Gesa Schneider.
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Cyanotote - Solar Print Cyanotype Tote Bag
Isbn 9783906213330
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 21278
€ 24.50
Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Now you can design and produce your own blueprint on the Cyanotote bag. All you need are some objects of your choosing, sunlight, and water to imprint shapes onto the bag’s cotton fabric, which is coated with a light-sensitive solution. Depending on the intensity of the sun and your chosen exposure time, the green colour of the fabric will turn silvery. The design will appear as a photogram, a negative shadow image resembling an x-ray. Imprints will vary in tone, depending on the transparency of the objects used. Your creation is both permanent and water-resistant.
no ills, 16 x 20 cm, sheet, English
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The New Era Magazine 2
Isbn 9789189270121
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21217
€ 24.50
'The New Era Magazine' focuses on Scandinavian interiors, design, art, and craft. This second issue visits the couple behind acclaimed interior architecture firm Halleroed at their forest hideaway. Celebrated fashion designer Diana Orving creates a textile art installation exclusively for New Era, and readers can go inside the beautiful, sparse home of glass maestro Ingegerd Råman. The issue includes a discussion on the profound effects of the built environment on our wellbeing. “I want to be part of a cultural movement that recalibrates what matters in society,” says Danish chef Fredrik Bille Brahe in Hugo Macdonald’s article on reconnecting with our roots.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Garment 2021: The Party Dress Issue
Isbn 9789081747776
Publisher AMFI
Idea code 21340
€ 15.00
In its eighteenth edition, the magazine of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute uses the concept of the party dress as a vehicle to start a conversation about important topics within the fashion industry that lie beneath the surface, in desperate need of becoming visible. Such issues include the lack of knowledge regarding diversity and inclusivity, the urge to label, and industries trying to tick boxes for commercial gain. The magazine consists of three phases and creates an open discussion on the outdated views on stereotypes and stigmas within fashion. The next generation of fashion professionals offer different perspectives in an effort to rouse change makers in the industry.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 32 cm, pb, English
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The Motif Magazine 002: The Happy Motif
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Publisher The Motif Magazine
Idea code 21328
€ 27.50
The second edition of the hardcover magazine produced by Stockholm-based The Motif Studio is a canvas entirely dedicated to all the things that make people smile. The brainchild of creative director Jakob de Tobon, founder of the magazine ‘Scandinavian S/S/A/W’, its colourful and diverse contents showcase an extensive selection of photographers and contributors. Paintings by Mark Tennant are interspersed throughout, along with quotations, poems, snippets of text, and more. Find your inner joy with street ballet in Nigeria, a solo surfing adventure in the wilds of Canada, celebratory costumes, young love, the bond between mother and child, and a lot of yellow smiley faces.
176 p, ills colour, 25 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Novo Typo Offgrid
Isbn 9783962160111
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 21372
€ 35.10
When designers are able to make their own letters, they also should be able to design and produce their own paper and ink. In order to understand and experiment with the concept of letters, colour, and paper, it is necessary to learn about these things – after all, they are the cornerstones of good design. This book is a self-initiated DIY project by Amsterdam-based designer Mark van Wageningen that is intended as a blueprint for all designers who wish to be self-sufficient or even recycle their own designs. By proposing a new standard for polychromatic typography using plant-based ink and recycled paper, he aims to inspire the pursuit of different approaches to graphic design.
64 p, ills colour, 18 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Back Office 4: Go With The Flow
Isbn 9782490077519
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 21274
€ 21.50
The fourth edition of ‘Back Office’ covers animated graphic design in the broadest sense, from animated GIFs, through television credits, to procedural animations, and kinetic identities. It addresses the omnipresence of screens, both in domestic (tablets or smartphones) and public spaces (advertising or information screens), which forces graphic designers to expand their approach by integrating the unique qualities of each medium. With this increasing diversity of media, the notion of visual identity is shifting and movement is becoming a mandatory part of the design process. Over seven interviews and articles, the magazine asks, ‘What is the incidence of the animated paradigm on design’?
144 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, French/English
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Lisa Walker - An Unreliable Guidebook To Jewellery
Isbn 9781922545039
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21362
€ 35.50
This expanded second edition further explores how the work of the internationally-celebrated New Zealand jeweller can be framed by the career-long provocation, ‘What is jewellery?’. Originally published to accompany the 2019 retrospective exhibition Lisa Walker: 'She wants to go to her bedroom but she can’t be bothered' at RMIT Design Hub Gallery in Melbourne, the new edition coincides with the final iteration of the 2021 exhibition at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. The narratives that emerge within this book offer an open-ended reflection on Walker’s work across different time periods, going off on tangents but returning to the many concerns of the field.
600 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Self Service 54
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Publisher Self Service
Idea code 21207
€ 31.50
Self Service magazine is a Paris-based fashion and culture biannual. The publication always makes fashion photography a work of art, capturing couture in surprising scenes. Perhaps a top-brand hoodie on an unmade bed, or a matching ecru blouse and shorts in front of a schoolhouse chalkboard, and even graphic pink floral trousers against a red taffeta curtain. Indeed, this edition lets the photographers, the models, and the designs do all the talking. Special to this issue is a portfolio called “Initiated Dialogs”, in which 11 esteemed creative minds nominated young and promising talent that are transforming industry norms and challenging dysfunctional consumerism.
516 p, ills colour, 30 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Caterina Napoleone - I Giochi Delle Muse
Isbn 9788875708955
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21349
€ 56.85
This book by Roman art historian Caterina Napoleone testifies to an artistic inventiveness that captures the “eternal and ineffable meaning of beings and things”. Packed with over ninety images of ancient and modern mosaics that have been rendered abstract by time and set among remnants of textiles, we are reminded that the ever-playful Muses are the namesake of mosaics. Musivo, furthermore, is an alternative word for mosaic in Italian. Each mosaic bears a harmony of colour and composition, an evocative power of the sequence of transient visions, enhanced by the arbitrary combinations of these meandering "stone carpets".
204 p, ills colour, 28 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Jochen Gerner Oiseaux - Real And Imaginary Chromatic Inventory (Afterword French Only)
Isbn 9782490077502
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 21270
€ 31.20
Oiseaux is an aviary of 200 drawings made by Jochen Gerner between February 2019 and September 2020. Each of these birds was drawn with pigmented Indian ink felt pens on small-format school notebooks from China and India, on which lines and squares of different sizes appear. The series constitutes a graphic experiment aimed at exploring the potential of the grid, the superimposition of lines and the association of a reduced number of colours in the creation of feathers. By mixing dreamed and real birds, Gerner questions the links between the imaginary and reality in our daily lives, and teaches us that the fantastic is often to be found in the reality of everyday life. The book includes a text in french written by the philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
224 p, ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, pb, French
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Flag Waves - House Flags From The National Maritime Museum
Isbn 9781909829176
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 21224
€ 29.50
House flags are a mix of striking, abstract designs and charming, hand-sewn motifs and were flown on boats of all sizes from huge passenger ferries to small recreational dinghies. With an introduction by Sue Prichard, Senior Curator: Arts, at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Flag Waves is the first book to examine the symbols and motifs of this remarkable collection.
152 p, ills colour, 223 x 25 cm, pb, English
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R For Repair: 10 Repaired Objects & 9 Repair Kits
Isbn 9789811495830
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 21394
€ 18.95
Not too long ago, repair was the first response to a broken or worn-out item. But mass production has made it easier and cheaper to replace such things instead. Yet this kind of affordability comes at a price. The preservative desire that came with owning our possessions has given way to a covetous appetite for the new. Edited by Hans Tan, the ten repaired objects featured in ‘R for Repair’ offer a counterpoint to our modern consumerist culture, where repair is either deprecated or, ironically, deemed extravagant. Shifting the concept of repair away from restoration, it can be reimagined as an inspiring and fulfilling activity. Published with an exhibition at National Design Centre, Singapore.
78 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Offecct + Luca Nichetto
Isbn 9789198667318
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21382
€ 20.90
Discover the Luca Nichetto design studio through this second book in a series offering in-depth insight into the brand’s long history of collaboration with leading international designers. Swedish furniture design company Offecct teams up with a number of well-known creators, including Yoko Choy Wai-Ching, Björn Ceder, Andreas Ackerup, and more, to tell the story of the ideas, design, and craftsmanship behind the studio’s products. It also details how Luca Nichetto adopted Scandinavian sustainability thinking into his native Italian design language. Nichetto was born in Venice in 1976, where his artistic talents were inspired by the famous Murano glassmaking industry.
ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, hb, English
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Offecct + Matti Klenell
Isbn 9789198667301
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21204
€ 20.90
Offecct is a Swedish furniture design company that develops unique, sustainable furniture and acoustic material, together with selected architects and designers. This is their first book in a series of collaborations with various designers from around the world. This debut features Swedish industrial designer Matti Klenell, who collaborated with Offecct to renovate the interior of Stockholm’s National Museum. This made the half-circle formations of the Font sofa system famous. The series seeks to tell more about both the designers and the product, an alternative way to provide in-depth knowledge of the thoughts, design, and craftsmanship behind Offecct’s range in the absence of physical meetings.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, hb, English
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No Seat At The Table
Isbn 9789492852328
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21318
€ 25.00
‘No Seat at the Table’ is a fictional graphic novel about the local and global influences of gentrification on citizens in Turkish and Dutch cities. It highlights four neighbourhoods where this phenomenon is occurring: Piyalepaşa in Istanbul, Ismetpasa in Ankara, De Kolenkitbuurt in Amsterdam, and Lombok in Utrecht. Each story is inspired by real-life experiences of residential displacement, told from the perspective of pigeons. The stories critically investigate gentrification, the housing crisis, and current ideas about priorities and affordability in urban planning. Written by Minem Sezgin and illustrated by Rajab Eryigit, Bob Mollema, Erhan Muratoglu, and Jasmijn de Nood.
120 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Kittybunnypony Patterns
Isbn 9791197025518
Publisher Documents Press
Idea code 21226
€ 40.95
The South Korean home decor brand compiled their charming patterns into this publication, as a tribute to their past work and to inform their future work. Since its inception in 2008, kittybunnypony has created over 150 patterns, and over 100 of them have been reproduced in high fidelity print to simulate the look and feel of the original physical fabrics. Each fun design is accompanied by descriptions spanning topics such as production obstacles, sources of inspiration, and anecdotes. For a more in-depth look into operations, the book contains interviews with domestic and international collaborators, as well as kittybunnypony’s very own designers.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, hb, Korean, English
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Vietnam War 2
Isbn 9784846532406
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 21294
€ 25.80
Part Manga comic book, part graphic novel, part wartime memorabilia catalogue, this Japanese book is for those fascinated by the Vietnam War. The drawings in rich, comic style cover everything from the different types of helmets worn by the soldiers, facts about the Forward Air Controllers and their “Bronco” planes, the US Pararescue squadron, a complete breakdown of insignia of officers and specialists, and much more. Genuine photographs show life in the jungle from the American military perspective: their combat rations, Zippo lighters, and card games. It also details fighter planes, tanks, and choppers.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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Nakajo
Isbn 9784903348513
Publisher Adp
Idea code 21295
€ 64.20
Japanese designer Masayoshi Nakajo’s genius is unparalleled. His illustrations and graphic works for advertisements, products, watch faces, posters, and the House of Shiseido are currently exhibited. This accompanying book is packed with a colourful visual timeline of his career, from the 1960s when he founded his own design office in Ginza, to the 21st century, when his crisp designs and iconic patterns still park the imagination and please the consumer. Its 600 pages attest to Nakajo’s unceasing ability to create youthful avant garde symbols and packaging for five decades, with designs and patterns that always seem to be dancing.
652 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Azulejo Flowers - From The 15th Century Up To Now
Isbn 9788864761008
Publisher Massimiliano Piretti Editore
Idea code 20408
€ 93.00
The tin-glazed ceramic tilework known as ‘azulejo’ has a long tradition in Portugal and Spain. Its production was also widespread in former colonies and drew upon local influences. Azulejo artists were influenced by different movements and styles, from the ‘manuelino’ (mixing elements of Gothic, Mauritanian, and Indian motifs) to modernism and later 20th-century styles. Azulejos were often used in the 16th century to decorate church interiors, especially around the altar. Throughout the history of this ceramic tradition, flowers are a prominently recurring motif. From floral Arabesque patterns to modern interpretations, this collection features an array of beautiful examples.
304 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Animalcules Colouring Book
Isbn 9783947858217
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21330
€ 20.45
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) first observed microorganisms and defined them as “animalcules”, a portmanteau of “animal” and “molecules”. Based on this term, this book conceived and designed by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins considers a world where the smallest is suddenly in control of the largest. Its illustrations function as an exploration into morphological occurrences, rejecting the goal-oriented, the figurative, and the categorical. It opens a creative bypass by following the traditional format of a colouring book. To draw is to embrace mutational forms, and to colour in these pages is to understand that many possible forms may emerge. We are what we draw.
124 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Redstone Diary 2022: In Another World
Isbn 9780995518162
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 21262
€ 15.50
In 2022 let the Redstone Diary be your guide to imaginary worlds, to places we never may experience, and worlds which once again might be. The images are by turn evocative, beautiful, and intriguing, and accompanied by thought-provoking texts. In 2022 everything is possible "In Another World".
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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